Gayan Kalinga

Arimac · Leadership & regional delivery

Scaling a fintech practice across South Asia & MENA

From 8 to 65+ engineers and 1 to 14 products — payment aggregation, BNPL, wallets and digital KYC delivered with regional compliance know-how.

The problem

Each market — Sri Lanka, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE — carries its own regulators, schemes and payment rails. Shipping fast requires absorbing that variance, not fighting it.

What was built

A delivery organisation and platform portfolio: Arimac Pay, Qatar BNPL, Kuwait Click Wallet, VISA data-science and blockchain engagements, Asia Securities capital markets, SriLankan Airlines & Etihad Guest platforms, and an IBM→Azure cloud migration.

Compliance context

CBSL, MENA central banks, PCI DSS, scheme rules.

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